14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is known as a company that aggressively targets the education sector, so it should come as no surprise the fact that it recently managed to bring its Surface Pro tablet in another school.
As a result, students and teachers at the Williston Northampton School in Massachusets will all start working with Surface Pro tablets during school hours, with Microsoft promising that everything will be made easier thanks to the advanced capabilities of the device.
“When the 80 middle school students and 450 upper school students representing 27 U.S. states and 27 countries began the school year at Williston Northampton School in Massachusetts, they all had a Surface Pro – as did the faculty,” Microsoft said in an announcement today.
The Surface Pro comes with a 10.6-inch display and a 3rd Gen Intel Core i5 Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000 and 4GB of RAM. It has two storage options, 64 and 128 GB, with more space available via OneDrive.
These features are making the tablet perfect for students and teachers, Microsoft said, with Windows 8 and support for desktop apps making it a very familiar learning companion.
“Having faculty and students on the same platform is absolutely critical,” says Robert Hill, Headmaster at Williston Northampton. “I think one of the great benefits in what we’re seeing is not that students are becoming more like teachers, but that teachers are becoming more like students, so that they are being flexible and creative in their thinking. They’re willing to take risks.”
